A ladder truck lowers its ladder after battling a two-alarm blaze started by a pizza in an oven at a 72-unit apartment building on Bleeker Avenue in Mamaroneck.

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A man who was trying to heat a pizza in an oven set off a two-alarm blaze in a 72-unit apartment building.

Residents of the building near the Long Island Sound shore initially whispered that the man put the pizza in the oven still in its box, but Mamaroneck village Fire Chief Robert Pecchia said that there was no cardboard, just food.

"When we arrived on location, the whole kitchen was on fire," he said. "It turned out that there was a pizza in the oven." ...